SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 18 civil representatives have been selected to join this year’s nationally televised bell-tolling ceremony in central Seoul on New Year’s Eve, including a person who rescued a stabbing rampage victim, officials said Wednesday. The popular midnight bell-ringing celebration at Bosingak Pavilion in central Seoul on Dec. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Sunday that a traditional bell-ringing ceremony at midnight on New Year’s Eve will be canceled amid a recent surge in novel coronavirus infections. “Considering the rapid spread of COVID-19, we have to cancel the year-end bell-ringing ceremony,” said an official from the municipal government [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS were the second South Korean pop artists to perform live in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s eve, in a spectacle packed with crowds set for a countdown to the new year. The seven-member boy band showed up on the stage in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin, who recently signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, plans to participate in this week’s Bosingak bell-ringing ceremony, a Seoul city official said Sunday. The annual ceremony is held at the Bosingak belfry in Jonggak, central Seoul, as a New Year’s Eve celebration to greet [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan city government said Thursday it will welcome the new year with a traditional bell-ringing ceremony. The bell will be rung 33 times at Boshingak Pavillion in downtown Seoul at midnight on New Year’s Eve by Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and 11 civic representatives, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeongdongjin Coast has been voted the most popular place to watch the sun rise. With Innovation, a South Korean company that provides lodging solutions, asked 400 travel experts about the best place to watch the sun rise in South Korea, 21.3 percent of whom chose the Jeongdongjin Coast [...]